• Title of article

    SimulationofMCCIwiththeTOLBIAC-ICBcodebasedonthephasesegregationmodelOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    BertrandSpindler، نويسنده , , BrunoTourniaire، نويسنده , , Jean-MarieSeiler، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    2264
  • To page
    2270
  • Abstract
    Intheeventofasevereaccidentinapressurizedwaterreactor,corium,amixtureofmoltenmaterialsissuedfromthefuel,claddingandstructuralelements,appearsinthereactorcore.Insomecircumstances,coriumislikelytomeltthroughthereactorpressurevesselandspreadovertheconcretebasematofthereactorpit.Moltencoreconcreteinteraction(MCCI)thenoccurs.Themainquestionthathastobeaddressedinthisscenarioiswhetherandwhenthecoriumwillmakeitswaythroughthebasemat.Forsomeyears,CEAisdevelopinganumericalcodenamedTOLBIAC-ICBinordertosimulatemoltencoreconcreteinteractioninreactorcase.ThegeneralapproachusedinthiscodeisbasedonthephasesegregationmodeldevelopedbyCEA.Thesolidphaseissupposedtobelocatedatthecoriumpoolboundariesasasolidcrustcomposedofrefractoryoxides,whereasthecoriumpoolcontainsnosolid.Theinterfacialtemperaturebetweenthecrustandthepoolistheliquidustemperaturecalculatedwiththecompositionofthepool.Theinteractionbetweenthermalhydraulics(massandenergybalances)andphysico-chemistry(liquidustemperature,crustcomposition,chemicalreaction)ismodelledthroughacouplingbetweenTOLBIAC-ICBandtheGEMINIcodeforthedeterminationofthephysico-chemistryvariables.ThemainpurposeofthispaperistopresentthemodellingusedinTOLBIAC-ICBandsomevalidationcalculationsusingthedataofexperimentsavailableintheliterature.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    941337